97% applications tested by Trust wave had one or more vulnerabilities. With the rise of web threats, it’s essential for any web application to have a proper firewall in place to protect from attacks for non-disruptive online business operation.

Having vulnerable files, plugin, software or misconfiguration on your server can expose to security risk, which may have the financial and reputational loss.

Well, you might have heard about “Mod Security” which is free Web Application Firewall (WAF) and you may consider using it with your web servers like Apache, Nginx, etc. Mod Security can be a good protection to websites but that requires a great level of configuration knowledge and continuous maintenance.

If you don’t want to own a maintenance & configuration headache then following Cloud-Based Security Provider (CBSP) will help you to protect from online web threats automatically.

CDN and few security protections you can have in the FREE account, however, to use WAF, you have to enroll for PRO plan. You can subscribe for 14 days free trial to see how it works.

2. CloudFlare

CloudFlare is a big player in CDN with more than 80 market share and provides WAF with PRO plan. Cloud Flare WAF safeguards you from OWASP top 10 vulnerabilities and automatically protects from following types of attacks.

3. SUCURI

SUCURI has two security services – Website Antivirus and Web Application Firewall. If you are just looking for WAF protection then you can start with Sucuri Firewall basic plan, which covers the following.